A same-sex couple said a newspaper in the Texas Panhandle deleted a reference about the couple in an obituary.

Couple Barry Giles and John Gambill said The Olton Enterprise changed wording about the pair in an obituary for Giles’ mother, Brenda Light, KDFW-TV reported.

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The couple wanted the obituary to say that those left to cherish her memory include her son, Barry Giles, and his husband, John Gambill, of Dallas.

“It wiped John completely off the picture like he didn’t exist,” Giles told the news station.

The newspaper’s publisher, Phillip Hamilton, told the couple he wanted the change, according to KDFW-TV.

“It is my religious conviction that a male cannot have a husband,” Hamilton said in a statement, KDFW-TV reported. “It is also my belief that to publish anything contrary to God’s Word on this issue would be to publish something in the newspaper that is not true.”